Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-06-01
TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL.

~TR1BUNEl-Memorial Day is being
observed here with patriotic honor
to-day. The banks and public offices
are closed. The Grand Army is car
rying out the o~bservances with much
zeal. The procession formed on
Warren street, corner of Grand, at
2 o'clock p. H.. and moved to the
cemetery where the Grand Army
ritual was read and the graves of
comrades marked with flags and
strewn with flowers and evergreen
embleins. Exercises were conducted
over the grave Of Comrade Chas. A.
Dewitt, the last veteran of Wads-
worth Post whose remains are resting
there. Returning to the city the pro-
cession will be dismissed on Main
street, foot of Broadway.
The procession included the Select
Knights A. o. U. W., mounted,
Wadsworth Post No. 8, G. A. r.,
q. S. Grant Camp No. 1, Sons of
Veterans, Veterans of the Mexican
War, Canton Schuyler Colfaz, I. 0.
o. f, Meagher Guards, Company c.
NJ. N. G., Helena Turn Verein and
Helena Fire Department.
The daughters of comrades assisted
in decorating the graves.
The, evening exercises. to be held at
Ming's opera house, will include an
Grafton by Ex-Governor B. Platt Car
penter and Comrade Martin Magin-
mis-.
Comrade Ross Deegan was marshal
of the day.
HELENA, May ~3o.-Ispeeial to the
Tribune THE South Missoula Land
Company has filed its articles of in
corporation with the secretary of the
territory. The c%orporators T A. B.
Hammond, r. A. Eddy and E. A.
Winstanley. The capital is $1,000
900 in shares of 500. The object is
to acquire real estate and water rights.
It is to be presumed that an addition
to the townsite of Missoula is con
templated in the newmove.
HELENA, May 2S.1[Special to the
TRIBUNE Yesterday Col. Broadwater
received from General Superintend-
emit j. NJ. Egan of the Manitoba
the following telegram: 'The
track is now 100 miles west of
Minot. The work is slow on ac-
count Of the bridging of Stony creek.
The graders are way ahead OF Fort
Buford."
HELENA, May 2S.-tSpecial to the
TR1BuNEt-Yesterday the train for
Butte was stopped a the Mullan
tunnel and sent back to Helena. A
cave-in had occurred in the tunnel,
causing a blockade. The company
announce that it will be raised to-
day. The Pacific express was held
here last evening on account OF the
accident.
ASSOCIATED PRESS. q
New York, May 2s.-The fire at tho
Belt Line stables was gotten under con
troll at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. The
stables With their contents and frame
houses on the opposite side of the street
were DESTROYED. The latest estimates show
that the loss will be S1,3325,O00. There
were / 400 horses in the stable, only 100
of which were saved. Many families are
homeless. The fire ragged from $50
o'clock till daybreak. The sun rose on a
scene of destruction, but the fremen were
masters of the situation. The of bodies
1000 horses were burned in the ruins of the
stable. More thln 100 families, mostly
poor people, have been rendered homeless
Many Frustrated by the heat-men, Wo-
men and children-wandered all night
aimlessIy over the ruins of their wrecked
homes. The insurance will be less than
s5p, 900.
P~ITTsBuRe, May 28.-A passenger train
on the Pennsylvania road jumped the
track at Horseshoe bend tonight in the
Allegheny mountains. Three cars went
over the embankment. Three persons are
reportedskiIled and a number injured. A
special from Altoona says the accident
was caused by a broken axle on the west
bound freight train, about thessflme the
the two trains met. Three men are re
ported killed and twelve injured. A mum
Der of physicians have gone to the scene
of the accident. There are no further par
f~ieulars.
OTTAWA, Ont, May 2s.-The debate on
the motion for a suspension Of the govern
ment's policy disallowing the local rail
way acts of the Manitoba Legislature was
not conelued in the house of commons
until 3 80 this morning. when the motion
was lost by forty-eight majority.
Several liberals voted with the govern
ment. The Canadian Pacific will, there
fore, continue to enjoy a monopoly OF rail
road freights in Manitoba, unless the peo-
pie of the province take the matter into
their own hands.
PARIS. May 2s.-The examination of the
ruins of the Opera Comique for the remains
OF victims continues vigorously. Twenty
bodies have been found in the dressing
room. These victims had ali met their
death by sufocatiop. Firemen saw other
hadi.s lint we're unable to reach them. 1t